Low-cost device engineered for 1 hour Covid variant test

Harvard and MIT researchers have teamed up to prototype a self-contained saliva-based diagnostic Covid test that can distinguish between variants in an hour and is “just as accurate as the PCR tests now used”, according to MIT. It is called ‘miSherlock’, for ‘minimally-instrumented Sherlock’, where Sherlock is a Crispr-based DNA/RNA test invented at Harvard’s Wyss Institute ...

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Humber gets wind farm investment

Today the government has announced a £260 million investment in offshore wind farms in the Humber region. “The Humber region embodies the UK’s green industrial revolution, with new investment into developing the next generation of wind turbines set to create new jobs, export opportunities and clean power across the country.“ says PM Boris Johnson. Siemens ...

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Fibre to be fed through water mains

Fibre optic cables could be fed through the water mains to connect homes, businesses and mobile masts in rural areas without digging up the roads, says the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). £4 million is available for  innovators to trial what could be a quicker and more cost-effective way of connecting fibre optic ...

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Berkeley team build world’s thinnest magnet

A team at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have built a cobalt-doped van der Waals zinc-oxide magnet from a solution of graphene oxide, zinc, and cobalt. Baking in a conventional lab oven transformed the mixture into a single atomic layer of zinc-oxide with a smattering of cobalt ...

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Antichiral ferromagnetism predicted

Researchers from Skoltech, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University have predicted the existence of antichiral ferromagnetism, a nontrivial property of some magnetic crystals that opens the door to a variety of new magnetic phenomena. Chirality, or handedness, is an extremely important fundamental property of objects in many fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry and ...

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Leonardo boosts #T-TeC 2021 space tech competition for students

The #T-TeC 2021 competition, which is supported by Leonardo, aims to encourage a new generation of scientists and innovators, with the aim of “creating a bridge between the academic world of research and the innovative space sector”. T-TeC stands for Telespazio Technology Contest, with Telespazio being the Rome-based space flight services company, a JV owned by Leonardo and ...

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